Julian Faulkner has been charged with six offences
A nurse allegedly made innapropriate sexual comments to patients and looked at Gaydar.com while on duty, the Nursing and Widwifery Council has heard.
Central News reports that Julian Faulkner, who worked at the Heanor Memorial Hospital in Derbyshire, faces six charges of innappropriate behaviour between May 2004 and June 2006.
He is charged with causing distress to a patient, making inappropriate sexual comments to patients and colleagues, and inappropriate use of the computer while at work.
In one incident, Faulkner allegedly ignored an incontinent patient’s request to go to the toilet, going on to spray him with cold water on him as he was lifted out of the bath.
In another, the nurse threw grapes at a patient. The 34-year-old nurse also requested that a female colleague put her hand on a patient’s genitals and forced colleague Lynne Parker to look at an image of a penis on his computer screen.
It is also claimed that Faulkner used a work computer to repeatedly watch footage of the execution of Ken Bigley, the British man killed in Iraq.
Rosemary Paul, of the NMC, states that Faulkner was “inappropriate in using sexual language in relation to his own sex life and in relation to patients and work colleagues”, adding that the defendant “accessed inappropriate websites and showed colleagues explicit images”.
If found guilty of misconduct, Faulkner faces being thrown out of the profession. He is not attending the hearing.
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